Hi Silvia! I reposted this to the genetics group...I think you 'replied' to me when you thought it was being sent to the group! Welcome aboard. If you have...
Well, well, well, look who joined the group! Yet another familiar face (figuratively speaking, of course ;))!! Welcome Silvia! You'll see, this group is a mine...
Silva, it will interest you that there are two research groups in the U.S. who are trying to get funding to study MEN (Multiple Endocrinological Neoplasia)...
WOW!!! Very interesting..I work specificaly in the field of digestive endocrine tumors in humans, in both sporadic and familial forms, i.e. the MEN1 syndrome...
Hi Marie, nice to "see" you here, too.. and hi to everybody's reading! So, my starting was not perfect..I posted to the wrong address! :( Hope it gets better...
I'll look this weekend and meanwhile I have written to a vet who is an adrenal neoplasia researcher as well as a clinician because I suspect he will be likely...
I have no objection, he might benefit by understanding more about ferrets and their health issue when it comes to the genetic problems some have. julie...
I would like to ask what average body length is typical for American ferrets? (I mean length measured from the end of nose to the base of the tail by flexible...
There are reasons to think that the whippet body is more the body selected for by hunting pressures encountered by burrow hunters while the larger and more...
... wrote: Thanks a lot, Sukie, very interesting! Russian ferrets have originally been selected for fur trading and now they are looking like 'bulldog' type. I...
When you say 'whippet' are you refering to the general size, or actual body shape? We have what we call 'whippet' or 'grayhound' ferrets here in the Uk and ...
... Ah, I was referring to what is seen in wild ferret relatives who hunt more on the ground and very possibly some ancestors who did more of that than folks...
beautiful ferrets. I just love the black one - stunning boy : -) Carol ... From: "for_emax" <for_emax@...> To: <Ferret-Genetics@yahoogroups.com> Sent:...
HI, normally I wouldn't post to this board as I am not expert enough to have any input, but I am a very interested reader... However, I may have some input as...
I'm dying to know ... what is the disposition like with humans? What is their energy level like (angoras, for example, are livelier than regular US ferrets)?...
Actually darrin, that's a good point, and may well be the case. Perhaps the arch does seem more prominent simply because of the slenderness of the ferret. My...
I suspect there is a bit more going on, too, and beyond the obvious, "I can't arch; have you seen my potbelly holding it down?". ;-) (Says she who has...
... look", a late neutering, still appears to effect this look. As their muscles loose tone, and size the face does thin back out a little. That is a thing...
... humans? I don't know on score of American ferrets, in Russia we think that there are no ferrets kits which would not snap. All kits we have seen was...
I am searching for some info and came across: http://www.devbio.com/article.php?ch=13&id=136 and thought that on skimming some folks here may find it...